Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM

Voices 1/08/08

Executive Producer: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Jim Fisher

Topic: Jim Fisher talks with Peta vanVuuren and Sandy Lowe of the Rockland District Nursing Association about some of the options for elders in the area who need home health services.

FMI: Rockland District Nursing Association, Inc., PO Box 1713, Rockland, ME  04841
Tel.  207.594.4522   Fax 207.594.6469

Weekend Voices 1/05/08

Executive Producer: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Marge May

Topic: The second in a series of election coverage specials produced in conjunction with the League of Women Voters of Maine, and hosted by Ann Luther, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Maine. Today the topic is finance reform. Overview of federal election financing and current trends. How does money affect election outcomes? Does the top spender always win? What’s the background on campaign finance regulation? What kinds of campaign finance reform are possible and desirable? What are the arguments against campaign finance reform? How would public funding work? Where do reformers go from here?

Guests:
Laura MacCleery, Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

John Rauh, founder and still serves as president of Americans for Campaign Reform – Just $6 which is a non-partisan grassroots organization that supports Public Funding of all federal elections.

FMI: www.lwvme.org
www.brennancenter.org
www.just6dollars.org

Voices 1/01/08

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Eric T. Olson

Topic: Arjun Makhijani, founder and president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on “Achieving a Carbon-Free Society Without Nuclear Energy”.   Excerpted from a talk at the University of Maine in November 2007.

To hear the speech in it’s entirety: www.peacecast.us (Eric Olson’s blog)

Weekend Voices 12/29/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Topic: Award-winning local artist and activist Robert Shetterly in the latest of his conversations with the subjects of his portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth”.  Today he talks with fellow artist and activist Lily Yeh

FMI:  www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ,  www.barefootartists.org , www.villagearts.org

Weekend Voices 12/22/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Phil Bailey

Topic: Phil Bailey reports back from the 2007 YearlyKos blogger convention—-he asked bloggers from around the country what they consider to be the most pressing issues for the upcoming elections, where climate change ranks on that list, and what steps they personally are taking to address climate change.

FMI: www.dailykos.com

Voices 12/18/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Karen Larsen, Joel Mann

Topic: Voices of holidays past, present, and hopefully future: Karen Larsen on the Solstice; answers to the question “how do you feel about the holidays”, set to music; an interview with Amy Cooper, community volunteer–working with Reverend Gerald Oleson to help our neighbors stay warm this winter.

FMI:

For individuals who want to contribute or for individuals who need assistance please contact Rev. Oleson at 73 1/2 Court Street in Bangor, or  at 947-2970, or email him at geraldole@aol.com.

 The other organizations mentioned by Amy Cooper were: Maine Kids-Kin at FACT (Families and Children Together): http://www.familiesandchildren.org/ and Toys for Tots: www.toysfortots2007.com

 

Weekend Voices 12/15/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

The latest in the series of conversations between local award-winning artist and activist Robert Shetterly and the subjects of his book and portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth”.  Today he talks with West Virginia native Judy Bonds about the devastating practice of mountain top removal coal mining.

FMI: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ;  www.crmw.net ; www.ilovemountains.org ;  www.appalachianvoices.org ; www.ohvec.org ; www.campusclimatechallenge.org